Let's tickle some ivories now. 17:03:07:27
Please welcome local jazz legend 17:03:12:00
ruby bishop.
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>> Bill: My guest is ruby bishop 17:05:37:18
one of the jazz treasures of the
north.
Welcome ruby. 17:05:42:18
>> Hello. 17:05:43:24
>> Bill: hello, you grew up on a 17:05:44:27
farm you were born in Rochester
Washington, 93 years ago.
>> You had to tell, didn't you. 17:05:51:09
>> Bill: sorry. 17:05:52:24
How did you become a musician? 17:05:53:15
>> Under duress. 17:05:55:21
>> Bill: really? 17:05:57:12
From who? 17:05:58:06
>> Oh, anybody. 17:05:59:09
There was a lady on a farm close 17:06:00:24
to ours and she had a couple
daughters and she had a piano 7
and we had a piano too.
But anyway, she started me on 17:06:12:18
this piano bit.
My mother had -- she was very, 17:06:18:21
very stern.
And when she wanted something, 17:06:22:24
it went her way or it didn't go
at all.
When I went to University of 17:06:29:21
Washington, she wanted me to
take pharmacy.
No way was I going to take 17:06:38:21
pharmacy.
My mother wouldn't let me learn 17:06:41:24
piano.
And I wasn't going to learn 17:06:49:21
anything.
I just took off, got me a job 17:06:51:27
and went to Idaho.
>> Bill: Idaho, huh? 17:06:55:18
>> Mm-hmm. 17:06:57:09
>> Bill: who were your early -- 17:06:58:03
who was your piano idol?
You have a similar style. 17:07:09:03
That's how you got your stride. 17:07:11:06
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>> A lot of my -- I think most 17:07:16:18
of my piano, I got from him.
And I won't forget the day that 17:07:20:18
I saw him in Portland.
He'd get up there and he'd go -- 17:07:25:09
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>> Bill: Love it. 17:07:51:12
It's such a playful style. 17:07:51:24
He was an entertainer, comedian, 17:07:54:09
just put on a show.
>> He was so funny. 17:07:57:27
I was fortunate because my 17:07:58:27
brother being president of the
union, he met all -- everybody
that came to play.
And then he'd take me with him. 17:08:08:15
I had pig tails down to here. 17:08:11:24
And so I got to meet them all. 17:08:14:06
And oh, they thought I was a 17:08:20:00
cute little kid at that time,
you know, at first.
Because I was playing piano. 17:08:25:12
>> Bill: who did you meet? 17:08:29:06 8
Who do you remember? 17:08:30:03
>> Oh, I remember all of them. 17:08:31:27
Stats, Duke Ellington, those 17:08:36:00
guys.
Just -- they were just something 17:08:39:00
else.
>> You're playing Sunday nights 17:08:41:27
at Vito's in Seattle at the
piano bar.
And I wonder if -- I wonder if 17:08:47:00
people ask you to play "misty"
for them a lot.
>> Oh, yeah, I play that almost 17:08:54:00
every day.
>> Could you play "misty" for 17:08:56:21
us?
>> Yeah. 17:09:00:03
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>> Bill: You can catch ruby 17:10:02:18
bishop every Saturday night at
6:00.
Go to Vitosseattle.com for more 17:10:08:12
information.